Word: condescendingness
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Civilian employers often do not want defense specialists. Some companies have placed want ads that state: "Aerospace experience is not acceptable." Aerospace men have been used to demanding the most advanced parts and tools on jobs for which the Government paid the bills; rightly or wrongly, they have a reputation...
NEWSPAPER obituaries for Sir John Barbirolli this summer were condescending. Barbirolli was unfashionable, unpopular, and vaguely old fashioned. The modern critics sneered at his approach to music, his method of conducting, his choice of composers. To the musical establishment, he was the archetype of the out-person.
The leaflet became an object of heated debate on Saturday and Sunday. Bread and Roses circulated a counter-leaflet warning that the original leaflet bore the mark of a provocateur: it was male chauvinist, addressing its readers as "Brothers"; it also said "you have to fight," not " we have to...
If you filled in the word Negroes or blacks, you flunk. Please accept a year's supply of condescending smiles. But if you wrote "women," or even "females," you are right on, grooved, with it, Queen for a Day.
When Julie Andrews starred in The Boy Friend in 1954, the musical seemed to be more than half in love with the era of wonderful nonsense it was ribbing, the Twenties. The current revival seems cool, condescending, and overly brittle.